asciilifeform: 'This is SOP for STEM/Biz profs, too. Never be alone with female students. Never mentor them. Never supervise a graduate thesis. A bad review/grade turns into a sexual harassment claim far too easily.'☟︎
asciilifeform: from the commentz: 'Why not honeytrap the honeytrappers with hidden audio/video recording devices? They might be illegal to use without consent in your jurisdiction, but then you need not reveal the recordings until you need to, and I don’t think “Arrest him for illegally recording evidence that proves my rape allegation was fake!” would fly.'
asciilifeform: 'Linus is never alone at any conference. This is not because he lets fame go to his head and likes having a posse around. They have made multiple runs at him.'
asciilifeform: if anybody's gonna 'obediently fucks with the thing from within' it'll be a bitcoin-themed isp from somewhere far outside the wot.
asciilifeform: trinque: you are probably being blackholes.
asciilifeform: 'After weeks of waiting to get registered with Berlin authorities, a group of refugees and migrants have sued Berlin’s main refugee center for failing to grant their asylum benefits on time, which they were promised when Germany took them in.' << lulz
asciilifeform: jurov: this kind of thing is arranged every time usg needs to ban another type of gun.
asciilifeform: of course it is possible that putin personally fakes these, aha.
asciilifeform: jurov: largely consists of twatter screencaps
asciilifeform: BUT the latter is an x86 blob and is trivially disassembled
asciilifeform: this is, naturally, at the cost of introducing another closed turd boot rom.
asciilifeform: incidentally hardware raid utterly annihilates (if used correctly - that is, for striping rather than mirroring) all known and unknown 'hdd firmware diddles'☟︎
asciilifeform fucking hates 'software raid' in any and all forms
asciilifeform: can also flash in own fw if you have a favourite.
asciilifeform: configured with an open source command line thing
asciilifeform: but i will also note, when mircea_popescu tells us 'get the everliving fuck out of usa' he has perfectly good reasons for this.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aside from stoolies, stooges, and other vermin, i elementarily lack the bandwidth to service the demand (and there is now again - demand)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: prolly gonna turn this thing into a gossipd-style whitelisted node soon.
asciilifeform: they bring usg with them wherever they go. the way rats bring plague.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: partly it is because i have a personal hatred of ph0rum sp4mz0r l337 d00dz
asciilifeform: and i don't own an impregnable castle where i can leave a machine going.
asciilifeform: problem is that i fucking need a node.
asciilifeform: (it is not an ultra-high-bandwidth node)
asciilifeform: and i doubt that he ended up on my box by pure accident.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the 'card-ok' fella insisted on being obvious as daylight
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: usg algo is, as i understand: 1) pick a fella who needs to have problems 2) steer known scum to his $thing 3) have it be established that he knows of (2) 4) pick him up as a thieves' fence☟︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, thestringpuller: the reason i was considering ~not~ keeping a node on my desk is the realization that, if this kind of thing carries on, it cannot really be considered a respectable node.
asciilifeform: the very examples of the 'disposable males overdue for the meatgrinder' as portrayed in mircea_popescu's articles.
asciilifeform: there are precious few creatures upon satan's green earth more loathesome than the common spammer.
asciilifeform: they are the fodder on which usg lives.
asciilifeform: i suppose this is a good time to point out that i fucking hate common criminals who lack the brains or elementary decency to make themselves any kind of hard target
asciilifeform: perhaps if tlp were here, he might cry narcissism.
asciilifeform: i insist on being shot for high treason rather than for somehow associating with spamming scum.☟︎
asciilifeform: nah i'll wait till they shoot me and cart it off themselves.
asciilifeform sadly contemplates unplugging the thing entirely
asciilifeform: if osama bin laden goldstein wants to use my box, plz have the decency to call himself something else.
asciilifeform: seems like these folks want a replay of the july idiocy ?
asciilifeform: , and all further blocks enforce the new rules.'
asciilifeform: 'We reuse the double-threshold IsSuperMajority() switchover mechanism used in BIP 66 with the same thresholds, but for nVersion = 4. The new rules are in effect for every block (at height H) with nVersion = 4 and at least 750 out of 1000 blocks preceding it (with heights H-1000..H-1) also have nVersion >= 4. Furthermore, when 950 out of the 1000 blocks preceding a block do have nVersion >= 4, nVersion < 4 blocks become invalid
asciilifeform: 'In addition to using cold storage, hardware wallets, and P2SH multisig outputs to control funds, now funds can be frozen in UTXOs directly on the blockchain.'
asciilifeform: and for every brian micon that needs to be tried for 'illegal bitcoining' you have 1,001 schmucks who were afraid to even read about it because 'they log my packetz'☟︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: there also a basic trick involved. when you repaint the opposition as 'criminal', it can then be dealt with using police methods, which are cheaper than black bag work
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: aha, why do you suppose they bothered to smash serbia and roll up all of old yugo into usg reich ?
asciilifeform: arguably a snore, because in practice usg already had doing-whatever-the-fuck-it-wants-to-whoever-it-wants powerz
asciilifeform: 'New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen’s use of the internet without any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory powers bill unveiled by Theresa May.'
